This is available on youtube and as text, it is to my mind one of the best he’s given; he’s clearly more comfortable with the role than previously. The last 11 months of a polling lead which was to leap the following day will have helped, but I hope they don’t believe their propaganda that…
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And now we have #lab22, starting on Sunday, here are my notes …
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I had a look at the financial reports and plotted Labour’s membership over the last 10 years and then added another 20. Here are my notes …
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On making a Citizen’s assembly happen within the European Union, with comments about citizen assemblies elsewhere in the world. Originally written in August 22, and amended as per the comments.
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Ursula von der Leyen, became the 1st woman President of the EU’s college of commissioners on 1st Dec 2019. Her appointment was controversial because she was not one of the spitzencanditaten. The record of her commission is documented on wikipedia. I became interested in this when trying to understand how and why the CoFoE was…
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While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.
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After the leak of the document entitled ‘The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019′, the Starmer led NEC commissioned an enquiry into the leak. I documented the report in an article called Labour and that leak on this wiki. As I said then, in July 2022, Labour’s…
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The government issued a consultation on the Data Protection law; it was commonly felt that they were attempting to allow itself to monetise the personal data of citizens, especially through the NHS data files. Whether after their response, it is felt to be so threatening is another matter. Here are my notes …
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I have a couple of notes on defence policy on this wiki. All recent white papers have emphasised that the defence capability we build is onky capable of success if working with allies. The primary military alliance is of course NATO, which has over the last 30 years concerned itself with “out of theatre” operations….
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I had no idea that the British Army had multiple long range rocket launchers. Here are my notes. …
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In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.
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The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?
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Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
Read moreFor those interested in Labour’s new proscription rules this is the central list of Prohibited Acts …
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While in Berlin, I saw a post bitching about Corbyn and Starmer’s contribution to Brexit, and remembered that Labour’s RemaIN campaign run by the then legacy leadership was also weak. I know that the doorstep operation was weakened by the lack of commitment of the party and the exhaustion from the local elections that had…
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